Re: LogicWorks, Inc. CD-ROM

[szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)]

In article <D553tA.DAA@cunews.carleton.ca>,
Michael Quattrocchi <mquattro@chat.carleton.ca> wrote:
>Jason Jeffries (JJeffries@psu.edu) wrote:
>
>> It wouldn't be hard at all to write a CD-ROM-friendly system for METAL.
>> A hack of MOSES would probably all that you'd need... 

A major hack, indeed. Pretty much a re-write. You'd be better
off to switch to someting like Exodus or XTS.

>that, and a PRODOS-8 CDROM driver... seeing as there is no such beast
>currently available (even Apple gave up on that one) you'd be hardpressed
>to get even the awesome moses to work on it.

wouldn't that be *nice*!!!!

>now, if you wanted to rewrite metal-gs from scratch, then it could use
>the gs/os scsi cdrom drivers without a hitch. Good luck either way.

About the only way to do it would be to put the cdrom drive
on an appletalk'd mac. Boot the IIgs via gsos with appletalk 
setup then launch metal.

I used to do the above (except with a hard drive, not a cdrom)
when I had my powerbook so that I could grab files off of it
from work through the bbs.

Also - just to mention. I think proline (either modemworks, mdbasic
or maybe both?) works with Appletalk, so Metal really wouldn't be
the only way to do this.


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